SOCIOECONOMIC DIFFERENTIATION OF MILK PRODUCERS FROM THE MATIDA SETTLEMENT - NORTH REGION, PARANÁ STATE (Atena Editora)

Abstract

The strategies for obtaining income adopted by the farmers are reflections of the rural development process in a region, as well as having an impact on the development itself when they gain the attention of the Technical Assistance and Rural Extension teams. The present work had as general objective to analyze the elements that influence the differentiation of milk producers from the Matida settlement, in the municipality of Jundiaí do Sul, in the pioneer north region of Paraná. The study used elements of the methodology of Diagnostic Analysis of Agrarian Systems in order to typify and characterize milk producers according to work productivity, that is, by the relationship between Agricultural Income and Man Work Unit (RA/UTH). A questionnaire was applied to 15 (fifteen) milk producers in the settlement. The data obtained were transferred to a programmed electronic spreadsheet that provided results such as: Total Surface (ST), Useful Agricultural Surface (SAU), Available Labor (UTH), Gross Product (BP), Intermediate Consumption (CI), Depreciation ( DEP), Value Added Division (DVA), Agricultural Income (RA), Non-Agricultural Income (RNA), External Income (RE) and Total Income (RT). It was observed with the work that, in the properties of the Matida settlement, the RA/UTH is more related to the use of technologies such as soil care, use of silage and milking equipment than to other factors such as land and labor.